Chapter 47 The Cowshed Couple
Shen Shuyu didn't know when they came back. When she woke up the next day, she saw a lot of cicada monkeys in the bamboo basket in the kitchen, probably weighing more than one kilogram.
Old Man Shen saw his granddaughter staring at the cicada monkeys and thought that she wanted to eat them, so he said with a smile, "My dear, I'll ask your uncle to fry a few for you later."
Shen Shuyu didn't want to eat fried food so early in the morning. She shook her head and said, "Let's fry it tonight and eat it together tonight."
When she said this, the whole family was happy. Old Mrs. Shen felt a little sad. These old cicada monkeys cost a lot of energy.
But it was just a little painful. Old Mrs. Shen agreed unconditionally to what Shen Shuyu said.
After breakfast, Shen Shuyu went out with Gu Jiandong, carrying the backpack.
When they walked to the main road, they saw a bullock cart coming into their group. The driver was my second grandfather. There was a man and a woman on the cart. They were both quite old. The woman was holding a little boy in her arms.
Last night, my second grandmother came to visit and I heard her say that some people who had been sent down to the countryside would come to their team today.
At first Shen Shuyu didn't pay much attention. As the ox cart got closer, the old man on the ox cart slowly raised his head and saw the faces of his old family members clearly. The people in his memory emerged in his mind.
Shen Shuyu was not sure at first, so he chased after him and looked for a long time before confirming that he had not recognized the wrong person.
She was a little excited. It was the old grandfather who taught the original owner skills.
Seven or eight years have passed. The old man has a lot more white hair and a lot more wrinkles on his face, but he looks in good spirits.
"Shu Yu, what are you doing following the ox cart? Go play somewhere else." Shen Erzhu turned his head and saw his niece following the ox cart, so he started to chase her away.
Shen Erzhu did not want his niece to have any contact with the two people on the ox cart.
Shen Erzhu had no idea about the background of the two people who were sent down, so when the commune leader asked him to pick them up, he went to pick them up.
Hearing the name Shu Yu, the couple on the ox cart stared blankly at the girl following behind them, and then tried their best to control their emotions.
"Second Grandpa, I just wanted to tell you to come to my house for dinner tonight. We'll have fried cicada monkeys." Shen Shuyu knew that now was not the time to recognize each other, so she stopped.
The ox cart went farther and farther away, and soon disappeared around the corner. Gu Jiandong held the white radish in his arms and asked her curiously, "Shu Yu, do you know the person on the ox cart?"
"I don't know you, let's go."
Gu Jiandong really liked the puppy that Shen Shuyu gave him, and he liked to take it with him wherever he went. If Bai Luobo felt lazy and didn't want to walk, he would hold it in his arms or put it in his backpack. In short, the man and the dog were never separated.
The two of them walked quickly and soon reached the top of the mountain. Goudan and his friends had come up early and had already cut the grass for the pigs.
Gu Jiandong's share was also harvested, and he could just put the pig grass into the backpack and take it down to complete the task.
As soon as they arrived, the children gathered around them, "Sister Shuyu, Brother Jiandong, the pig grass has been cut, let's go play."
"I won't go. You guys go and have fun. I'll see if I can catch a pheasant or a rabbit. If I do, I'll roast them for you."
Shen Shuyu said that she would not let the children follow her when she went to catch pheasants and rabbits. The children knew her temper and did not dare to follow her. "Sister Shuyu, then you go. We will take good care of Brother Jiandong."
"Gu Jiandong, go play with them. I'll be back soon."
"Then I'll go find the treasure for you." After going up the mountain, Shen Shuyu was often separated from him, and Gu Jiandong got used to it.
Over here in the cowshed,
Shen Erzhu parked the ox cart and pointed to the cowshed, "You will live here from now on.
The work in the cowshed is also yours, go inside and clean up, I'll go to the brigade headquarters to get you some food."
The couple carried their grandson into the cowshed. At the back of the cowshed was an empty room. It was called a room, but it was actually just a few wooden boards.
It looked even more rudimentary than the place where cows lived, but neither of them cared about it.
Seeing that there was no one around the cowshed, Liang Jun could no longer suppress his emotions and burst into tears, "Old Yang, is the girl that the team leader just called Shu Yu girl your granddaughter?
She looks exactly like Feng Jiao when she was young!"
Yang Zhen nodded, "It's her!"
"Wow, I finally met her. I don't know if she's been doing well or not, or if she's been wronged in all these years.
When Fengjiao died, I said I would bring her to my side and raise her, but you disagreed. We have missed her growth over the years, and I don’t know if the child will blame us.”
"Okay, don't be sad. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are good people. I was worried about them back then, so I came here to live for a few years.
I saw it with my own eyes. My father-in-law and mother-in-law loved her like the apple of their eye.
Besides, the child is very strong, and I taught her a lot of hunting skills, so the child is living a good life.
Fortunately, I didn't agree to take Shu Yu in to raise her. If I had, I would have really harmed her."
Liang Jun felt somewhat fortunate, "Yes, it's a good thing we didn't bring her here to raise. If we had, this child would have to suffer with us now."
Yang Zhen patted his wife's shoulder and said, "Okay, stop crying. Now that we have been sent down here, we will have many opportunities to meet in the future.
But you have to control your emotions and not recognize the child.
If we recognize her in our current identity, it will only harm her."
"I know." She was already content to be able to be sent here and see the child from afar.
"That child probably recognized me as the grandfather who taught her skills back then. With her temper, she will probably come to the cowshed tonight. Don't cry then. If you cry, just say you were fumigated by cow dung."
Liang Jun: “…………”
What Yang Zhen said was right. At around eleven o'clock in the evening, when everyone in the family was asleep, Shen Shuyu quietly slipped out of the house and went straight to the cowshed.
"Grandpa!"
Mr. and Mrs. Yang Zhen were waiting for her, and their little grandson Yang Tao had already fallen asleep.
The moonlight tonight is very bright. Under the moonlight, the three of them can see each other's faces clearly.
"Child, have you been well these years?" Yang Zhen told his wife not to cry, but his voice was choked with sobs.
"Grandpa, I'm living a good life. My grandparents love me very much. I grew up in a honey pot."
Sensing the sad atmosphere, Shen Shuyu joked, "How come your grandfather left without a word? I thought you were eaten by a giant insect. I was sad for a long time."
"I had some urgent matters at that time, so I didn't have time to say goodbye." Seeing his wife eagerly wanting to talk to his granddaughter, Yang Zhen introduced, "This is my wife, Liang Jun."
Then he pointed at his sleeping grandson and said, "Grandson, Taotao."
Shen Shuyu called out, "Grandma Liang."
Liang Jun's eyes instantly turned red, and he took out a box from his cloth bag, "Good boy, I don't have anything good to give you on our first meeting, so you can play with this wooden box."